Founder of Modern Economics : Being Samuelson, 1948–2009, Hardcover

by Roger E. Backhouse

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Founder of Modern Economics : Being Samuelson, 1948–2009, Hardcover by Backhouse, Roger E., ISBN 0197812821, ISBN-13 9780197812822, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Paul A. Samuelson is widely regarded as the world's leading economist in the so-called “Age of Keynes”, the three decades after WWII, acknowledged by his being the first American to win the Nobel prize in economics. Foundations of Economic Analysis was a manual on how economic theory should be done, and the nineteen editions of Economics: An Introductory Analysis provided the first exposure to economics for millions of students worldwide. Volume I of this intellectual biography told the story of someone who established himself as the most promising economist of his generation. This volume shows how he went on to dominate the subject. He was well known as a mathematical economist at a time when the use of mathematics in economics was in its infancy but, as this volume shows, he was far more than that. He wrote seminal articles in field after field, including consumer behaviour, international trade, consumer, finance, public expenditure, optimal taxation, the economics of inflation and unemployment, and many others. He had the ability to use his knowledge of mathematics to simplify economic problems, providing the concepts that other economists could use and yet he could write in a style that entertained as well as informed his readers. He helped transform of his department at the Massachusetts Institute of Te

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 1948
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780197812822
• Condition: Fine

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